How to validate clicks from partner sites?

[FM]

Hello everyone!

I bought some banner campaigns from several websites to promote my store and I'm paying them for click. Is there a script available that would be able to count how many people really come from specified site? For example i would give the partner site a special link they would have to use which would go to a counter script.

 

Big thanks if you can help me!

[veverkap]

If you have a stats program installed on your server, you could just give them a random string on the end like:

 

http://www.your-server.com/shop/default.ph...ue=referrername

 

Then your stats program would automatically grab the variable, but osCommerce would ignore it.

 

Or you could write a quick PHP snippet that would take the referring location and insert it into a database to give you the info.

 

If you need any help, let me know.

 

Patrick

[FM]

Thank you for your reply!

I was thinking about some kind of php/cgi script that would be able to count the incoming visitors if they have used a special link given by the script. I just couldn't find it anywhere (and i don't know how to write one).

[johnglobal]

use the affilate module

[FM]

use the affilate module

 

Is it ready?

I installed a counter called Ricolog and made different .shtml pages for every partner site which counts the visitors and redirects the to the main page. Shoul work just fine...

[mlulm]

Does anyone have an example of this?

 

"you could write a quick PHP snippet that would take the referring location and insert it into a database to give you the info. "

 

It would be nice if it would break it down to search engine, keyword, and a affilate number.